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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby Chuck Engels » Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:38 pm

Two of the worst discs I've found are Memorex and Imation. I do have two DVD players that will not play burned DVDs at all, no matter what brand I use. Then there are my two cheap DVD players that will play anything at all.

The discs will most likely fix your problem Richard, the newer DVD players are getting much better at playing the good brands of DVDs at least.
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby hpharley90 » Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:33 pm

I just got home from work.

I made a mistake with naming Imation -R. I can't remember anything anymore. :oops:

What I actually have is Verbatim +R.

I probably bought them at Wall Mart.
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby Chuck Engels » Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:45 pm

Some players cannot play +R DVDs, do you have any -R you can try?
Also the speed the discs are burned at can make a huge difference, are you burning 16x discs with Premiere Elements?
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby bgsnmky » Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:42 pm

Has anyone seen this brand Taiyo Yuden in 8.5GB
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby Chuck Engels » Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:53 pm

That would be a dual layer disc, only needed for projects over 75 minutes long.

From what I have read you will want to stay away from any Dual Layer discs from Taiyo Yuden.
Verbatim makes good dual layer discs if you need them. They only come in +R and -R, -R is still fairly new to dual layer discs.
You can find deals on Verbatim dual layer discs all over the internet but they are a bit more expensive than the standard single layer discs. It is sometimes more advisable to use 2 single layer discs instead of one double layer.
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby bgsnmky » Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:13 pm

Thanks.

From what I am reading I want to summarize.

On one of the articles it shows these as the top brands:
1ST CLASS MEDIA
Almost flawless burns with 95-100% reliable results:
TAIYOYUDEN, YUDEN, TYG01, TYG02 = Taiyo Yuden = (-R)(+R) ... be aware of fakes
MXLRG01, MXLRG02 = Maxell = (-R)(-RW) ... be aware of fakes
MCC = Mitsubishi Chemicals = (-R)(-RW)(+R)(+RW)
TDKG02, TTG01 = TDK Corp = (-R)(-RW) ... be aware of fakes


Since Verbatim uses MCC then they would be rated high right?

Summarizing from this post and others - do I got it right!
I should by 8X if using PE to burn.
Taiyo Yuden single layer preferred
When possible don't use dual layer, but if I need it use Verbatim.
Use -R when possible as more DVD players will be able to use them, but if everyone has a new DVD player/computer the +R should work.
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby hpharley90 » Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:07 pm

Chuck Engels wrote:Some players cannot play +R DVDs, do you have any -R you can try?
Also the speed the discs are burned at can make a huge difference, are you burning 16x discs with Premiere Elements?


All I have is -RW. Same thing with that also. No audio. The past year or so I have been using Nero to burn at 4x then a few weeks back I got PP CS3 and have been using Encore at 4x. When I used to burn with PE2.0 I had many 4x disc but I couldn't get those discs anymore and had to get 16x(at WalMart).

Thats when I went to Nero to burn.And all this worked with my old DVD player and with my in-laws deck in Central Asia.

Since I been involved with video editing I always bought -R (probably Verbatim or Imation at WalMart).
I bought these +R by mistake.

I have already sent 4 discs of these +R to my in-laws and they play fine on their deck. I never had a chance to play them on my old deck before it broke.
But their not playing on the new one.
They played fine on the computer.

I'll see what happens Monday when the Taiyo Yuden get delivered.
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby Chuck Engels » Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:20 pm

bgsnmky wrote:Thanks.

From what I am reading I want to summarize.

On one of the articles it shows these as the top brands:
1ST CLASS MEDIA
Almost flawless burns with 95-100% reliable results:
TAIYOYUDEN, YUDEN, TYG01, TYG02 = Taiyo Yuden = (-R)(+R) ... be aware of fakes
MXLRG01, MXLRG02 = Maxell = (-R)(-RW) ... be aware of fakes
MCC = Mitsubishi Chemicals = (-R)(-RW)(+R)(+RW)
TDKG02, TTG01 = TDK Corp = (-R)(-RW) ... be aware of fakes


Since Verbatim uses MCC then they would be rated high right?

Summarizing from this post and others - do I got it right!
I should by 8X if using PE to burn.
Taiyo Yuden single layer preferred
When possible don't use dual layer, but if I need it use Verbatim.
Use -R when possible as more DVD players will be able to use them, but if everyone has a new DVD player/computer the +R should work.


All looks good to me, and yes - Verbatim is MCC media.
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby hpharley90 » Mon Dec 24, 2007 10:05 am

The Taiyo Yuden discs that I received did not do the trick.
It was the deck. It won't play audio on any home burnt disc.

So I went and bought a HDDVD player and it plays everything and they even look better than a standard defination DVD player.

The old deck is less than 60 days old so I wil return it to store.
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby Chuck Engels » Mon Dec 24, 2007 12:06 pm

The discs are still a great investment, best on the market and well worth having :)
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby Ken Jarstad » Mon Dec 24, 2007 3:10 pm

What make and model was your std-def DVD player? We want to avoid such.
So I went and bought a HDDVD player and it plays everything and they even look better than a standard defination DVD player.

That's right :!: Any upconverting DVD player will do that.
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby hpharley90 » Mon Dec 24, 2007 3:20 pm

Ken Jarstad wrote:What make and model was your std-def DVD player? We want to avoid such.


Toshiba DVD Video Player SD-3990.
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby hpharley90 » Mon Dec 24, 2007 3:25 pm

Chuck Engels wrote:The discs are still a great investment, best on the market and well worth having :)


That's what I've read.
I'm exstatic at .32 cents a disc delivered to my door :-D .
That's the kind of shopping I like.
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby Ken Jarstad » Mon Dec 24, 2007 3:42 pm

Nice deal. I tried buying from supermediastore on December 10th but the PayPal purchase failed to process - and the price I came up with was $43.99 - perhaps they went on sale.

I just got 100 T-Y Inkjet hub from runtechmedia.com for $34 usd and free shipping. HP D5160 does an outstanding job!
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Re: What Brands of DVD Media Are The Best?

Postby hpharley90 » Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:57 pm

When I went and looked for the DVD compatability specs. just this past weekend I found that the Toshiba player is supposed to be compatable with -R and +R "so it was written"

I couldn't get audio out of either one.
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